[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com>:

> Ken Arromdee wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Delirium wrote:
>>
>>> That seems reasonable to me, and as an added bonus it could be done in a
>>> manner that doesn't special-case Wikipedians. The general category of
>>> non-notable attack websites/blogs is rarely worth linking to, and since
>>> their proponents often spend a lot of effort trying to link them and
>>> they can have negative effects (moreso than most spam), it might be
>>> worth some special effort to keep them out.
>>>
>>
>> "Rarely", though, isn't "never".
>>
>> What happens when one of those rare cases shows up?
>>
>>
>
> It's better to make a policy to cover what happens most of the time. We
> can handle the exceptions on a case by case basis.
>

But we already do that. [[WP:EL]] already removes random personal webpages,
blogs etc. The problem is that in the cases in question these aren't random at
all but are the websites of the people in question.